How Trump is stretching laws to make the federal government more political
The White House is exploiting, and sometimes outright ignoring, the arcane laws, rules and regulations that have long ...
Trump uses mass firing to remove independent inspectors general at a series of agencies
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping ...
Why government needs independent inspectors general
By keeping an eye out for waste and fraud, they make efficiency possible.
Trump plans an audacious grab for congressional ‘power of the purse’
As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of ...
Playboy ‘adultery in my heart’ interview nearly sank Carter’s campaign
Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my ...
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Jimmy Carter’s fraught relationship with Washington — and what it teaches us
He came here in 1977 to the heal the country after Watergate ... by courting a few of Washington’s elites, especially Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and the ultimate social ...
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Jimmy Carter lies in state as Washington begins its commemoration
A farmer who rose to be Georgia governor, Carter arrived in Washington to heal America after the corrosive years of the Watergate scandal. Yet he was beset by intractable troubles of his own ...
Bob Woodward blasts Washington Post for ending presidential endorsements
Journalist Bob Woodward, best known for his coverage of the 1960s Watergate scandal, criticized his former employer, the ...